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BaddDDD Sonia Sanchez

Title: BaddDDD Sonia Sanchez / directed by Barbara Attie, Janet Goldwater and Sabrina Schmidt Gordon.
Publication: [San Francisco, California] : California Newsreel, [2015]
Supplementary Content: Index of poems by Sonia Sanchez that she or others read, the time code for when they occur and the books in which they appear

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Description

1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, color; 4 3/4 in

Summary

"Offers unprecedented access to the life, work and mesmerizing performances of renowned poet and activist Sonia Sanchez who describes herself as 'a woman with razor blades between my teeth.' A leading figure in the Black Arts Movement and inspiration to today's hip hop spoken word artists, Sanchez for over 60 years has helped to redefine American culture and politics as an activist in the Black, women's and peace movements."--Publisher's website.

Alternative Title

Bad Sonia Sanchez
Sonia Sanchez

Subjects

Genre/Form

Independent films.
Biographical films.
Documentary films.
Interviews.
Nonfiction films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Note

Wide screen. Enhanced for 16x9 television.
Originally produced as a documentary film in 2015 and broadcast on television on America Reframed on the PBS World Channel on March 8, 2016.

Credits (note)

Producers, Barbara Attie, Janet Goldwater and Sabrina Schmidt Gordon ; cinematographers, Peter Brownscombe, Daniel Traub, Mike Attie, Brian Noreika, Robert Shepard, Eric Hurt, Patrick Sheehan, Mike Dennis, Art Jones ; editor, Sabrina Schmidt Gordon ; composer, Evan Solot ; a film by Barbara Attie, Janet Goldwater, Sabrina Schmidt Gordon ; Attie & Goldwater Productions, Inc.

System Details (note)

DVD, NTSC.

Language (note)

English SDH; subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing; Closed-captioned.

Contents

1. Introduction / Making poetry -- 2. Coming home to Birmingham -- 3. A place called New York City -- 4. Civil rights activism -- 5. The Black arts movement -- 6. A woman's voice / Love & erotic poems -- 7. San Francisco and Black studies -- 8. Personal life / children -- 9. Nation of Islam -- 10. Sanchez and hip-hop -- 11. A place called Philadelphia -- 12. Does your house have lions? -- 13. Re-imagining / Activism for peace.

Call Number

Sc Visual DVD-1532

OCLC

922928995

Title

BaddDDD Sonia Sanchez / directed by Barbara Attie, Janet Goldwater and Sabrina Schmidt Gordon.

Publisher

[San Francisco, California] : California Newsreel, [2015]

Country of Producing Entity

United States.

Type of Content

two-dimensional moving image

Type of Medium

video

Type of Carrier

videodisc

Physical Medium

4 3/4 in. stamping

Digital File Characteristics

video file region 1

DVD video

System Details

DVD, NTSC.

Performer

Featuring: Sonia Sanchez, Talib Kweli, John Bracey Jr., Ayana Mathis, Ursula Rucker, Questlove, Bryonn Bain, Nikki Giovanni, Maxine Roach, Haki Madhubuti, , Jessica Care Moore, Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones), Brenda Greene, Ruby Dee, Imani Uzuri, Zakiyya Alexander, Louis Massiah, Morani Sanchez, Joanne V. Gabbin, Joyce A. Joyce, Rebecca Alpert, Yasiin Bey (Mos Def), Jamarr Hall, Ruth Balter, Jean Haskell.

Credits

Producers, Barbara Attie, Janet Goldwater and Sabrina Schmidt Gordon ; cinematographers, Peter Brownscombe, Daniel Traub, Mike Attie, Brian Noreika, Robert Shepard, Eric Hurt, Patrick Sheehan, Mike Dennis, Art Jones ; editor, Sabrina Schmidt Gordon ; composer, Evan Solot ; a film by Barbara Attie, Janet Goldwater, Sabrina Schmidt Gordon ; Attie & Goldwater Productions, Inc.

Language

English SDH; subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing; Closed-captioned.

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Index of poems by Sonia Sanchez that she or others read, the time code for when they occur and the books in which they appear

Added Author

Attie, Barbara, film director, film producer.

Goldwater, Janet, film director, film producer.

Gordon, Sabrina Schmidt, film director, film producer, film editor.

Sanchez, Sonia, 1934- interviewee (expression), performer.

Alexander, Zakiyyah, interviewee (expression)

Alpert, Rebecca T. (Rebecca Trachtenberg), 1950- interviewee (expression)

Bain, Bryonn, interviewee (expression)

Balter, Ruth, 1922- interviewee (expression)

Baraka, Amiri, 1934-2014, interviewee (expression)

Bracey, John H., interviewee (expression)

Dee, Ruby, interviewee (expression)

Gabbin, Joanne V., interviewee (expression)

Giovanni, Nikki, interviewee (expression)

Greene, Brenda M., 1950- interviewee (expression)

Hall, Jamarr, interviewee (expression)

Haskell, Jean, 1932- interviewee (expression)

Joyce, Joyce Ann, 1949- interviewee (expression)

Kweli, Talib, interviewee (expression)

Madhubuti, Haki R., 1942- interviewee (expression)

Massiah, Louis, interviewee (expression)

Mathis, Ayana, interviewee (expression)

Moore, Jessica Care, interviewee (expression)

Mos Def (Rapper), interviewee (expression)

Questlove, interviewee (expression)

Roach, Maxine, interviewee (expression)

Rucker, Ursula, interviewee (expression)

Sanchez, Morani, interviewee (expression)

Uzuri, Imani, interviewee (expression)

Solot, Evan, composer (expression)

Attie & Goldwater Productions, production company.

California Newsreel (Firm), publisher.

Research Call Number

Sc Visual DVD-1532

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